Marunla tonti Marunla

Description

This person is highly emotional, talks too much, can become capricious, proud, and violent, although they also have great temper, seek equality and brotherhood, and may be protected by their friends or unjustly accused.

It is advisable for them to go forward with patience, tell the truth, take care of their excesses and the path of evil, do what is indicated in consultation, and respect the dead and Orishas so that their life may go well.

Born in this sign

• In this sign melli:
• The ceremony of ñangareo brought by Shangó to earth is born, horseshoes are born, the granting of offices or important titles is born, the medicinal secret of the roots and branches of the trees is born.

Proverbs

• Be grateful for the good they do you and do not forget those who help you.

Stories and patakíes

In his birth xla suffered hunger

At his birth xla suffered hunger.

And could not eat animals.

One day, he contemplated his life and said: others have everything they need, and I have nothing.

What do I have to do with Oduduwa?: Take ten cowries, and go find awo: “since my birth, I have nothing to eat”.

Could he do something for me?

Awo took his kpoli, found iwori meji, and said get some iron hooks (they could be fishhooks), two hens, a he-goat, ten cowries, and sacrifice.

Xla refused: how?

I have nothing to eat, and what he does is ask me for something?

If I had a he-goat, I wouldn’t have come to see him!

Xla went on his way, found the hooks.

On his way through the prairie he saw two he-goats, and realized the owner was absent.

Xla liked the two he-goats for himself, and looked to the right and to the left, and took the two animals.

And he began to sing: ire a gbodo, (let it be repeated!) I, ajanu xla.

Ire a gbobo.

There are so many animals, a gbodo!

I, xla, ire a gbodo.

And he returned with the two he-goats.

And he gave them to awo with two hens, ten cowries, and the iron hooks.

Awo took his offering, and made the sacrifice, and gave the hooks to xla.

Xla was happy with his hooks (claws).

Awo had put them in the ground, except that he put them on his fingers.

Xla went to sleep at night.

The next day, he woke up: each hook was fixed to the skin of his fingers.

And xla went quickly to the forest.

He met agbali, the antelope, his playmate, who knew nothing about the story of his claws.

He called agbali, and in the course of the game, he passed his claws across his throat.

Agbali struggled and shouted: ceevo!

What is it you are doing to me!

And xla exclaimed: ka wooo-meji!

Consult woli meji!

Agbali exclaimed: ceeevo!

Ceeevo!.

And xla howled: ka woooli meji!

In this sign is when xla begins to eat.

And from this day it is that agbali repeats in the forest: ceeevo!.

Ceeevo!..

Woli meji is the sign under which xla came into the world just as he was hungry.

He went to see awo, by calling for a consultation.

This sign came out.

Awo prescribed a sacrifice.

He asked xla for: three roosters and three pumpkins.

This was what the sacrifice consisted of.

Xla procured all this, and he was told not to fail to make the three offerings (personal sacrifices) separately.

In the morning, he went alone to the thickets to leave the first sacrifice and if he found any animal, he must not touch it.

When he arrived at the thickets, xla saw a dead elephant.

He said: how?

He told me not to touch anything on my path.

But I am hungry.

Now elegbara, who was right there in the thickets, said you must not touch that animal, and obey awo’s orders.

Xla left the elephant and went on.

At noon he went to take his second sacrifice and saw a dead ram, and elegbara told him also not to touch it and so he did.

In the afternoon he took the third sacrifice, and found a dead antelope.

Elegbara told him: sit down and eat with joy.

He sat down and ate.

Elegbara then said: from here on, you will never again be hungry.

And, from this time, xla does not suffer hunger.

Proverb: woli meji!

Dagbe ma ño wa nu gbeto.

Woli meji!

He is not good at returning favor to other people.

This is the sign that appeared to xla and to the man.

Xla found it in the forest, and his oluwo told him to offer some iron claws as sacrifice.

He refused to do this.

The oluwo looked for everything needed for his own sacrifice and did it.

One day when xla was having a terrible hunger.

He met an oluwo accompanied by a child.

And he said: are you my oluwo?

Give me something to eat.

I have nothing in my stomach!

How, exclaimed the oluwo, how am I going to find meat here?

You are the hunter; I have nothing.

Xla said: there is an animal behind you.

The oluwo said: know that oluwos are there to protect people and not let anyone die.

But xla leaps on the child and ate him.

And after this act xla sang as follows: n`du bulu de!N’du buuulude!

I have to eat what should not be eaten!

Evil seems to be good and vice versa, beware.

The thief stole from xla in the city, and the thief gave it back.

Xla lived in agbodo

Xla lived in agbodo.

He was a great thief.

Always, he took other people’s sheep.

The peasants all gathered on a beautiful day and said: how do we eliminate xla?

And they decided to throw him out of the city.

Xla, once expelled, went to look for an oluwo called alitonu boko to consult awo, to know how to enter the city that had banished him.

Woli meji came out.

The oluwo asked him for a pot of palm oil and a wooden jar with palm wine (akoko).

It was necessary to place the pot and the jar at the public gate of agbodo, so that everyone would find this and have fun.

Awo added: after leaving this, hide in the bushes, and observe what happens.

A moment later, a palm wine seller came and passed singing: kuuuuuu-wi!

Shortly after, people began to come.

And each one began to buy and drink palm wine.

Suddenly, a peasant opened and exclaimed: is it yours?

What is good about this pot?

And they went to see it.

He saw the palm oil, and said: who is the fool who left this oil here without taking care of it?

Well, I’ll take some.

– A second peasant: I’m also going to take advantage of the opportunity!, And the third and the fourth, and then everyone, and they left the pot with no oil left.

Xla did not appear.

Seven days later, xla went to bring the complaint before the chief of the city against those who denounced him as a thief.

The Oba asked him: what were the charges?

Xla answered: that he had bought a pot with palm oil and, crossing his town, took a rest in the bushes and left the pot of oil at the public gate.

On my return I had nothing to recover.

A few days later, I learned that those who took the oil live in this town.

And the Oba asked his people and they said: that they found the pot with the oil and, since it had no owner, they drank it.

– How do you judge your act?

Asked the chief.

Then xla began to laugh and said: see well that I am not the only one who steals in the city!

Why did you allow them to banish me?

The chief concluded: xla speaks well, he must be admitted again into the city.

And xla entered the city, and xla walked like a chief.

And everyone sang behind him, as they sang on the day of the banishment.

Songs.

Ku na do glibo azo na do gli, he na do gli, bo ya na do gli.

E do ago!

Laye laye!

Gbodo-gli bo do gli doe do ago!

Death is at the entrance of gbodo and illness is at the entrance of gbodo, misfortune is at the entrance of gbodo and poverty is at the entrance (of gbodo) the entrance of the city, they said: behind!

It has nothing to do!

It has nothing to do!

The fear of gbodo (= xla) became great in the country the city of the entrance, they said: behind!

The full entry is in the app

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